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Paris attacker 'pledged allegiance to ISIS in video’

A man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris had pledged allegiance to the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) in a video found at his apartment, AFP reported Wednesday (June 7th).

The 40-year-old man, who was shot and wounded by police after lunging at the officer, had shouted that he was "a soldier of the caliphate" during the attack on Tuesday and that he was acting in revenge "for Syria".

The video pledging allegiance to ISIS was found in a police search of an apartment he was renting in Cergy outside Paris, the source in the investigation said.

The man was placed in custody in hospital, where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the chest.

Documents found on the attacker identified him as an Algerian doctorate student studying media at a university in eastern France.

The 22-year-old police officer sustained minor neck injuries in the assault in the packed square at one of France's most visited tourist attractions.

France is still under the state of emergency imposed after the November 2015 attacks in Paris, when ISIS fighters killed 130 people in a night of carnage at venues across the city.

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